Media Activist Research Ethics: Global Approaches to Negotiating Power in Social Justice Research

Acknowledgments......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 11
Abbreviations......Page 15
List of Figures......Page 18
List of Tables......Page 19
Chapter 1 Introduction: Mapping Questions of Power and Ethics in Media Activist Research Practices......Page 20
Activists: Beyond Extractive Research......Page 23
Activists: The Contradictions of Anonymity and Consent......Page 24
Activists: The Labour of Research Participation......Page 26
Researchers: Hierarchies of Participation......Page 28
Researchers: Rooted vs. Embedded in Movements......Page 31
Researchers: The Double Labour of Research Activists......Page 33
Reciprocal Critiques Between Research and Activism......Page 35
Asymmetries: Intersectional Power in Research Activism......Page 36
Structure of the Book......Page 38
Part II, Decolonizing Methodologies and Negotiating Community Learning......Page 39
Part III, Negotiating Power Dynamics Between Researcher and Activist Positionalities......Page 40
Part IV, Media Activist Research in the Context of Global Crises......Page 41
References......Page 42
Part I Practice-Based Perspectives on the Ethics of Research Activism......Page 44
Chapter 2 Research Ethics: Critical Reflections on Horizontal Media Activism Research Practices......Page 45
Grassroots Autonomous Media......Page 46
Research Practices......Page 47
Activist Practices......Page 48
Critical Reflections: Contradictions and Tensions......Page 50
Research Participant Contradictions......Page 51
Research Collective Contradictions......Page 55
Contradictions in Collective Power......Page 59
Recommendations......Page 62
Conclusions as Departure Points......Page 66
References......Page 67
Chapter 3 Dealing with Ethical Dilemmas in Activist Research on Social Movement Media......Page 69
Overcoming Suspicion and Resistance in the Field......Page 72
Justifying the Research to Activists......Page 75
Balancing Science and Advocacy......Page 77
Paths for Researcher-Activist Dialogue and Collaboration......Page 79
References......Page 82
Chapter 4 Challenges for Social Movement Research in Contexts of Inequality: The MST in Brazil......Page 85
Relevance of Research with Social Movements and Militant Research......Page 86
The Context of MST and Its Appearance in Scholarly Research......Page 91
Challenges for Research with MST as an Object......Page 94
Final Considerations......Page 100
References......Page 103
Part II Decolonizing Methodologies and Negotiating Community Learning......Page 105
Chapter 5 Denaturalizing Research Practices: (Re)Signifying Subject Positions Through Decolonial Theories......Page 106
Decolonial Thought—Towards Epistemic Insurgency......Page 109
The Place of the Subject in Research—Exercising Disobedience......Page 114
Promoting Skills and Spaces for Self-Invention......Page 118
Creating the Conditions to Rethink Positions and Relations Between Subjects in the Production of Knowledge......Page 123
References......Page 125
Chapter 6 Disrupting Settler Colonialism and Oppression in Media and Policy-Making: A View from the Community Media Advocacy Centre......Page 126
Disrupting Colonial and Oppressive Communications in Canada......Page 129
Building the Community Media Advocacy Centre from the Ground Up......Page 133
Centering Indigenous Sovereignty in CRTC Policy-Making......Page 135
Ethical Considerations in Challenging Colonial and Oppressive Media and Policy-Making......Page 140
References......Page 142
Chapter 7 Wearing Multiple Reflexive Hats: The Ethical Complexities of Media-Oriented Community Engaged Learning......Page 147
Methodology: Situated Experience and Epistemology......Page 148
Experiential Learning (EL)......Page 150
Community Engaged Learning (CEL)......Page 151
Issue #1: Community Labour Meets Critical Scholarship......Page 153
Issue #2: Knowledge Mobilisation......Page 156
Issue #3: Unexpected Adventures and Ethics in Practice......Page 157
Issue #4: Resistance to EL......Page 158
Resistance and Institutional Labour......Page 160
Issue #5: Precarious Labour......Page 161
Issue #6: Moving Beyond Sanitised Placements......Page 163
Reflexivity......Page 164
References......Page 165
Part III Negotiating Power Dynamics Between Researcher and Activist Positionalities......Page 171
Chapter 8 The Ethics of Reciprocal Communication......Page 172
Arriving in the Field: Power and Positioning Towards Activist Practices......Page 174
Critique and Reciprocity......Page 179
The Ethics of Reciprocal Communication......Page 185
References......Page 186
Chapter 9 Researcher Ethics: Between Axiological Reasoning and Scientific Discussion......Page 189
From Citizen Media to Audiovisual Content Producer......Page 191
140journos: Founders and Origins......Page 194
Choice of Subject: Normative Orientations and Preconceptions of the Researcher......Page 195
Obstacles of Fieldwork and Emerging Ethical Dilemmas......Page 199
Conclusion......Page 205
References......Page 206
Chapter 10 Difficult Choices: Application of Feminist Ethics of Care in Action Research......Page 207
Action Research and Its Challenges......Page 209
Application of Feminist Ethics in Hip-Hop Culture as a Tool for Social Change......Page 210
Working in Russia: Inequalities and Constraints......Page 213
Organisational Structure and Project Roles......Page 215
Community Logics of Horizontalism vs. Organisational Logics of Hierarchy......Page 217
Care-Focused Feminism and the Production of New Vulnerabilities......Page 221
24/7 Bullying and the End of Democracy......Page 225
Conclusion......Page 228
References......Page 230
Part IV Media Activist Research in the Context of Global Crises......Page 233
Chapter 11 The Ethics of Media Research with Refugees......Page 234
Media Ethics: Proximity and Distance......Page 237
Media Activist Practices: Visibility and Voice......Page 244
Conclusion......Page 258
References......Page 259
Chapter 12 Challenges of Ongoing Conflict Research: Dialogic Autoethnography in Studies of Post-2014 Ukraine......Page 262
Dialogic Autoethnography: Theoretical and Methodological Framework......Page 266
Conflict Ethnography as Belonging and Non-belonging......Page 268
Conflict Ethnography as Emotional Engagement: A Feminist Approach......Page 270
Conflict Ethnography as Political Engagement: Being Part of the Conflict?......Page 272
Avoiding Hegemonic Appropriation and Discursive Domination: Ethical Considerations......Page 274
Suggestions for Future Research: Interdisciplinary, Cross-Context, Friendship-Based Ethnography......Page 276
Conclusions......Page 277
References......Page 279
Index......Page 282